Fifty years after Qianlong (1785), in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dengji, a "Thousand Banquets" was specially held in the Forbidden City, inviting officials and the elderly 1000 people to the banquet to whitewash the peace. At the age of 80, he also carved "treasures of the 1980s". He boasts that he is the oldest and longest-serving emperor in China, which is unprecedented.
The Qianlong period was the highest peak of the development of the Qing Dynasty, and it was commonly known as "Kanggan Prosperity" and "Gaoqing" in the west, which was the last prosperity of the ancient feudal dynasty in China. However, many people hold different opinions and think that it can be called "the prosperous period of Kang Yong". This Qianlong is a "rich three generations", who knows how to enjoy himself best, leads a luxurious life and is corrupt in political affairs. After his death, the Qing Dynasty began to decline. But no matter what your point of view, this Qianlong is a rare "lucky" emperor in the history of China.
So how fatuous was Qianlong in his later years? Let the Qing dynasty move from "the prosperous time of kanggan" to "the decline and fall of Daoxian county"!
In the late Qianlong period, Qianlong preferred small Shenyang. Under the influence of little Shenyang, a large number of officials are corrupt and have bad politics. But Gan Long trusts Xiao Shenyang very much. There is also a passage in unofficial history saying that Gan Long and Xiao Shenyang have an unusual relationship.
Gan Long attached great importance to Xiao Shenyang, married his daughter to Xiao Shenyang's son Feng?enyende, and married Xiao Shenyang in-laws. In this TV series, Teacher Wang Gang exposed the rape and fraud in Xiao Shenyang. But Xiao Shenyang is a handsome man. He can be outstanding, otherwise he wouldn't be so big. The film and television drama demonized him.
Emperor Qianlong worked for 60 years. In order to avoid Kangxi, he chose to give way to Jiaqing. However, he retired endlessly and still dominated state affairs. In the next few years, I couldn't speak clearly, so I relied on Little Shenyang to convey my wishes. You can think about how powerful Shenyang is. Emperor Jiaqing should also be kind to him. So after the death of Qianlong, Jiaqing immediately copied the home of Xiao Shenyang. There is a folk saying that "small Shenyang falls, Jiaqing has food to eat". It is said that the money embezzled by Little Shenyang is the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty 15, which is about one billion silver, but the specific figure needs to be evaluated. Under the rule of Little Shenyang, a large number of officials bought and sold officials, which was unprecedented. At this point, the Qing dynasty began to decline.
History: During the Kangxi period, the state treasury was more than 50 million taels of silver; In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1723), the treasury was 60 million taels; In the fifty-five years of Qianlong (1790), it reached 80 million Liang. In the last years of Qianlong, due to his exultation and attention to ostentation and extravagance, the prosperity of the world turned sharply, leaving only 2 million taels in stock. It takes hundreds of millions of dollars to completely renovate the summer resort; Overhauling Yuanmingyuan costs hundreds of millions; Mother's filial birthday, the queen's birthday for herself, that's even more expensive. He traveled more places than One Happy and Fifty, making six southern tours and building 30 palaces from Beijing to Hangzhou. In addition, he also took more than 2,000 ministers to travel, eat, drink, live and travel, and spent huge sums of money, which was 10 times that of Kangxi's southern tour. He goes out to play every year and is a veritable tourist emperor.
In history, Qianlong visited Wutai Mountain five times, paid homage to Confucius in Qufu five times, visited Dongling seven times, and visited Tianjin twice. 1 time climbed Songshan Mountain and visited Zhengding. Military expenditure1.200 million yuan, 1947 increased 60,000 troops and paid 3 million yuan.
After Qianlong's later years, due to official corruption, rampant corruption and poor people's lives, domestic class contradictions and ethnic contradictions have further intensified! Peasant uprisings of different scales have been launched all over the country. Therefore, Qianlong had to concentrate on suppressing the peasant uprising, which was undoubtedly worse for the already cash-strapped Qing government.
In the fifty-third year of Qianlong, Annan usurped the country and began to challenge the authority of the Qing government. As a result, Qianlong began to fight against Annan again. In the end, the war did not have much advantage, but it was a failure on the whole. In the battle between Myanmar and Annan, the other side took the initiative to negotiate because they were afraid of the influence of the Qing Empire. As a result, foreign troops were used on a large scale at the most difficult financial time in the Qing Dynasty, and the final result was the decline of national strength. A huge empire gradually began to decline from prosperity, and began to decline from the hand of Qianlong.
When it comes to the fault of the Qing emperor, the literary inquisition is an unavoidable topic. The literary inquisition in the Qianlong period came down in one continuous line with his grandfather and Lao Zi. He has no education. He wrote more than 40,000 poems in his life, and almost none of them have been circulated in the world (except those selected for primary school textbooks). But he insisted on distorting other people's articles.
"But make Longcheng fly, and don't teach Huma to cross the Yinshan Mountain." This poem was originally recited by an official who flattered him, but it angered him and almost killed the official. There are more than 30 records of the literary inquisition/kloc-0 in the Qianlong period, more than his great-grandfather, grandfather and Laozi combined. During his reign, he developed the literary inquisition to its peak.
Qianlong once promulgated the Foreign Trade Case, which closed the trading ports in Ningbo and other places and allowed only European and American businessmen to trade in Guangdong. Because of this, China people know less and less about the outside world. They only live in the dream of going to China and can't keep their eyes open to the world.
When he was at home, the British industrial revolution had begun to flourish. Later, British spinning machines, steam engines, cruise ships and other industries were gradually formed and further improved. However, China is still at the stage of making products by hand, and the gap is not generally large. He didn't have the slightest intention of looking at the world, which led to the late start of modern industry in China. Only 40 years after his death, the first Opium War broke out and the Qing Empire was beaten out of the water by the British.
Emperor Qianlong's greatest contribution was to pacify the Zhungeer rebellion, completely incorporate Xinjiang into Chinese territory, conquer Myanmar, pacify civil strife and stabilize the rule of Qing Dynasty. However, when Emperor Qianlong reached middle age, he was gradually overjoyed to see that the Qing Dynasty was prosperous and strong under his own rule and the country was peaceful and peaceful.
On the whole, Emperor Qianlong was a good king. In feudal society, few emperors can be wise kings all their lives. Most of the emperors we praised didn't live as long as Qianlong, and they would get tired of any profession, let alone emperors. People who can enjoy all the splendor in the world are also the people who are most attached to power. When they are young and strong, they still do everything themselves. When they look at their grades when they are old, they get tired easily. There is no shortage of flatterers around the emperor. The saddest thing is that people around him are acting for the emperor, making him feel perfect.